Disaster Services
Service and volunteer programs can help their states and communities prepare, respond, recover, and mitigate disasters and increase community resiliency. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic area.
Overview of the Disaster Services Focus Area
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Overview of the Disaster Services Focus Area (PPT)
2012 Disaster Services Performance Measures
The following performance measures are part of the agency-wide Priority Measure, Number of individuals that received assistance from CNCS-supported programs in disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, and/or recovery and part of Goal 1: Increase the impact of national service on community needs in communities served by CNCS-supported programs. See all goals and agency-wide Priority Measures.
DS1: Number of individuals that received CNCS-supported services in disaster preparedness.
DS2: Number of individuals that received CNCS-supported services in disaster response.
DS3: Number of individuals that received CNCS-supported services in disaster recovery.
DS4: Number of individuals that received CNCS-supported services in disaster mitigation.
2012 AmeriCorps National Performance Measures Instructions – Disaster Services (PDF)
Other Performance Measurement Resources
General Disaster Services Online Resources
- VISTA Ready Kit: Tools and Resources for Communities in Crisis
- Video on Flood Fighting with Sandbags
- Guides and Resources for Disaster Services and Homeland Security
- Disaster Response and Recovery Resources
- DisasterDiscussions e-mail discussion list
- Managing Spontaneous Volunteers in Times of Disaster: The Synergy of Structure and Good Intentions (PDF)
- Preventing a Disaster Within the Disaster: The Effective Use and Management of Unaffiliated Volunteers (PDF)
- National Service Responds: The Power of Help and Hope After Katrina (PDF)
Online Courses Related to Disaster Services
- CNCS Disaster Services Online Orientation (Parts I, II, and III)
- Managing Spontaneous Volunteers in Times of Disaster
